-The place is limited. Priority is 6 month full monthly participants.
-This course is for dancer, actor, performer, person who has physical training experience. If you have question,
please ask to us with your experience.
-On the final April2015, each solo performance by participants, and Atsushi Takenouchi solo
and more guests performance in Butoh festival.
- December optional dates; Dec 29-31 will be combination class. It focus mainly on Butoh (3.5-4h) ,
then contact improvisation(2h) + Acrobatic class(2h).
( Contact improvisation class guided by Massimo
Pierini and Mario Ghezzi. Acrobatic class guided by Urana Marchesini.
Former experience is not necessary.)
On the 31st Dec, there will be countdown/new year
celebration event in the night at SpazioNU with more guests.
Let’s make countdown celebration dance together !

photo by Agata Wawryszczuk
photo byTsukasa Aoki
JINEN Butoh 6 month course
6 months – Plants bloom the flower, bear fruits, and give seeds.
Each
person’s dance, each existence of body, each movement is also
transforming through this 6 months.
We would like to share and spend this process, this opportunity together.

Finding your inner movements and connecting them with your Butoh dance.
This is the work of blooming flower.
Next, you once make withered the full energy from flower, and mature it.
Then extract your own Butoh movement and condense into one seed.
This one seed is your own Butoh piece.
Through extracting, condensing, you will meet the most important Butoh element for you.
This is the work of producing seeds.
Seeds of plant is a gift of flower life to the next generation of
nature. In other words, it is a gift to nature, to the universe, to
return all your life.
Audience receive this gift. What the audience want to see ultimately is the truth of your life that will not hide.
This is a single flower that bloomed in a moment on the stage from the seed of you.
6 themes of this course The 1st – <Inside and outside >
Create into Butoh with the sense of space, the consciousness to
exterior and the internal sense of life phenomenon. Internal sense;
breath, internal organs, spine. External sense; sense of space,
parallel sense, sensory, tacticle, visual. To dissolve the wall between
the inside and the outside of the self of here and now, soul
dresses the body, dresses the space and the landscape.
The 2nd < The memory of life and transformation >
- Think about time until today which has started from the Big Bang. If
the time until now is a growth of huge single tree, we might be a leaf
of the tip of a branch. This tree was a stone, wind, insect, fish, sea,
the earth, moon. One leaf forget that this huge tree is a body of its
own. All the memory stays within our body.
The 3rd < Light and shadow>
Growth and decay, night and day, static and dynamic, life and death. As
night and day is necessary to all life, opposing these elements exist
as of the ins and outs of one life. How we can experience these
elements as one.
The 4th< Existence >
Your existence stands on the stage as a life. This is also the ultimate
proposition of the performing art. It is to stand as the truth of your
life. We will image and start create your own Butoh piece from this
work of existence.
The 5th < Seed>
To find a seed from millions of flowers. It means that we extract a
seed to create own work from millions of possibility . The important is
we once need to face the wither of flower. Through facing death, we
will discover seed. In this work, we progress creation and start
imagining own costume for your work.
The 6th < A flower >
If the seed is a creation of work, we should transform the seed into a
flower in one moment on the stage. You find Butoh here, you find
miracle of life on the stage. And this is the truth, and the flower of
truth.

“ Dance is devotion of life”
I learned this while my travelling nature
fields called JINEN. This has never changed since old times and will
never change. This means I should dance to “my life”, to the moment,
and to now which lasts forever.
I’ve got my body from the earth. I’ve got my life from the sun and
the moon, my parents, my friends and my love. Then I’ll return the
gifts to these universe. I’ll return them to others through dancing
body and soul. As I see a tiny flower selflessly, I meet a dance filled
with a joy of “ life”. And then, my body is filled up with water of “
life”. The seeds of memory inside of myself come into bud.
The sound of winds is the whispering of the earth. The sound of
minerals is the muttering of machines. We hear the sounds of the
universe through explosion and noise and stillness.
Oh, thousands of sounds, take our souls far away to our unknown world.
Travel with reminding us of forgotten dances. On the sun and the moon,
there are young men singing eternal songs at every place in the world.
Let’s begin an ancient and modern fete at “ relics of life” holding
artificial and nature－on earth.JINEN Butoh Atsushi Takenouchi
Atsushi Takenouchi: Joined butoh dance company „Hoppo-Butoh-ha“ in
Hokkaido in 1980. His last performance with the company
"Takazashiki"(1984) was worked on by butoh-founder Tatsumi Hijikata.
Atsushi has started his own „Jinen Butoh“ since 1986 and created solo
works „Itteki“, „Ginkan“ as a universal expression of nature, earth,
and ancient times and impressions of the moment, meeting with people
and environment. He made 3 year “JINEN” tour project throughout
Japan for 600 sitespecific improvisations (1996-1999). During this
time, he studied a spirit of the universe under Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito
Ohno. Since 2002, he has been mainly based in Europe, working on Butoh
dance collaboration project with dancers and actors in France, Poland,
U.S.A and other countries. Joining in festival such as Avignon
festival, Paris Butoh festival, NY Butoh festival, he has been
presenting his solo piece. At the same time, he also collaborates with
film. The recent work in Alaska and Hawaii, “Ridden by nature”
environmental art film will be completed soon.Hiroko Komiya- music (www.jinen-butoh.com/hiroko_profile_e.html)
Creates sounds from various objects, like water, stones, metal bowls,
toys and voice. Her music is designed to let the sound come naturally
from each object, instrument, as if they are breathing and whispering
of each life. She regularly accompanies Butoh dance performance by
Atsushi Takenouchi.